Not in my name

Twenty-six hours after promising before the King to keep and enforce the Constitution, thousands of citizens -almost a million- overflowed the streets of Madrid against the Amnesty of Pedro Sánchez and his separatist partners.

Under the slogan "Not in my name: neither amnesty nor self-determination". For Freedom, Unity, Equality!

The concentration had as its epicenter the Plaza de la señora Cibeles which was filled with decent, peaceful people, outraged -very outraged- by the excessive price that the president has paid for 7 votes of a fugitive from Justice to continue not in the general interest but to remain four more years in power. 

Principle of resistance

If Don Pedro and his Caucasian chalk circle in Moncloa believe that with the investiture the protests will end, they are wrong. We are at the beginning of a new resistance which will not end until the Popular Front finishes fulfilling its duty to return to the Magna Carta. We got used to their lies and we have arrived from pardons, sedition and embezzlement to the amnesty that erases the crimes of the corrupt; very soon, the separatists, coup plotters and philoetarras with balaclava, will demand to Sánchez the independence referendum as if they were overseas colonies.  

With the doctor president everything is possible because, as several speakers warned, Mr. Pérez-Castejón has no limits or boundaries. Neither honor, nor dignity, nor shame, nor word. 

Some psychiatrists compare him to Tiberius. Reread his biographies.  His time as ruler was ambivalent (plurinational) but his difficult personality led him to unleash persecutions against all his enemies. 

Since Thursday he has erected a wall of contempt and revenge to divide and polarize the whole Spanish society.  His thing is to stress and blame the adversary. The nationalist victimhood has been stolen from the Basques, Catalans and Galicians. Any criticism or attack is an aggravation to his person and to Spain. Sánchez is Spain. We are all left over. That is the dilemma. 

Against the amnesty

The organizers, a hundred civil society associations headed by the Forum and Freedom Foundation; Neos, S'ha Acatabat, Catalonia Suma, Association for Tolerance, etc...) have obtained the response of thousands of Spaniards with the aim of stopping this governmental drift that can only end in the secession of Catalonia (ERC and Just), that of the Basque Country (PNV) and the annexation of Navarre (Bildu). That is to say, in breaking the unity of Spain. That is the Plurinational Spain. 

As a prelude to the speeches of the elected, a few minutes before twelve o'clock, the constitutionalists burst into a common cry against the amnesty: "Not in my name" Red and yellow flags crashed on the European blue protected all the demonstrators. 

The weather - eighteen degrees - accompanied this demonstration with generosity. A sun of hope sheltered us at the gates of the City Hall of the capital of the Kingdom with a protected and protective Cibeles. A lesson in civility. Decent and concerned people against the president of ice and against the coup leader on the run from justice.

The banners -including two from the PSOE- insisted on the usual: "Sánchez vendepatrias", "traitor", "Judas of the 21st century", "Puigdemont and Sánchez to prison"! As a novelty, in support of Isabel Díaz Ayuso there was the chant "I like fruit".

The demonstration that stretched from El Prado to Colón and from Puerta de Alcalá to Puerta del Sol ran without incident. I checked the asphalt at the end of the celebration of this celebration for freedom and the ground was clean as a whistle. This is the Spain that takes to the streets without hatred or rancor. A Spain that breathes freedom, democracy, transition... A Spain of free and equal citizens. 

The wait was seasoned with songs that everyone still feels. Mi querida España (Cecilia), Libertad sin ira (Jarcha), Mediterráneo (Serrat), Libre (Nino Bravo) and Que Viva España by Manolo Escobar.

The first visitors were Esperanza Aguirre, Rosa Díez, the great mayor and better person Álvarez del Manzano, Marcos de Quinto, -without Girauta-, Miguel Ángel Aguilar and Carlos Cuesta.  At the stroke of noon on the west side appeared Abascal and his cohort of admirers while in the east area followed the performances Feijóo, Ayuso and Martínez-Almeida.

All with Unity

The Plaza de Cibeles and surrounding area turned into a clamor when the presenter asked for a round of applause for Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who is recovering in the Gregorio Marañón Hospital after the attack he suffered last week. Alejo, Alejo, Alejo! Alejo has always been a democrat and a great Spaniard, a great scourge of the separatists and coup plotters.

The eight speakers displayed a common denominator in Madrid's sky full of light and sunshine: love for the homeland without complexes, unity and rejection of the new presidential order and its policy of permanent involution.

The young Julia, spokeswoman of S`ha Acabat denounced that "Spain has been sold for 7 miserable votes". Her voice did not tremble when she accused Sánchez of "transferring the coup to all of Spain". He defended that they are Catalans proud to be Spanish and predicted that "the mobilization for unity will be permanent because the people will always choose freedom". Spain is not for sale, Spain defends itself", he concluded.

Ángel Enrique Otero, director of El Nacional de Caracas unveiled the Bolivarian regime that he has suffered in the flesh until he went into exile in Madrid.  He recalled the attacks on democracy, liberties, the judiciary, the press and the protection of criminals. Just like here. He warned us firmly: "But this is not going to happen here". He reviewed the expropriation of private property, the expulsion of public teachers by Chavista militants and the appointment of corrupt administrators. Almost like here. He rejected the policies of the Spanish president and showed gratitude to our country because "Spain is our home", he said.

Félix Ovejero, a Socialist (still) in spite of himself, recognized that Sánchez has not understood that in democracy nobody is above the law. "Today -he stressed- the laws are written by criminals". And he prophesied: "the PSOE is dead and very dead". 

He denounced the false Sanchist progressivism that wants to strip us of our rights. "We will be in the streets with respect and with firmness". He ended with, "Long live the Spain of Free and Equal citizens!" 

Concha Martinez was widowed because ETA assassinated her husband. She lamented that terrorist crimes were being normalized, thereby breaking freedom equality and encouraging the forgetting of loved ones. "These are not progressives, they are progressives; they only want power and to demolish the Magna Carta; I only ask for full democracy and independent justice."

Andrés Trapiello recalled that "after the pardons and now with the amnesty, Sánchez wants to drive us crazy: his personal ambition has no limits; he wants to convince us that white is black and that now it is night." His main proposal is to erect a wall. "A man is not more than another if he does not do more than another". 

The president of the Republic of Tabarnia, Albert Boadella intervened by videoconference. Sarcastic and witty as always. "I was born in a dictatorship ("me jode") and I'm going to die in another dictatorship ("y también me jode")".

Spain don't kill yourself

The Portuguese MEP Paolo Rangel ignited the spirits of the attendees when he connected directly with the people: "Europe is with you," he shouted. The vice-president of the European Parliament, amidst applause, emphasized: "Amnesty is not a Spanish problem, it is a European problem". 

An essentially Europeanist speech. The participants shouted "Rule of Law! A little more, and they adopted the Lisbon lawyer and politician. He was able to seduce an audience devoid of hope. He counterposed the "Madrid me mata" from the time of "la Movida" to "España no te mates".

Finally, the wise Sabater closed the event by paying tribute to the great Basque, Spaniard and artist Agustin Ibarrola, who passed away yesterday.  Don Fernando wrote in the blue skies of Madrid, several ideas full of future and hope:

a) There cannot be differences of rights among Spaniards.

b) We must not tolerate that they take Spain away from us.

c) We will not give up our land.

d) If someone wants to leave, let them leave, but do not take anything with them. (Applause).

e) Spain belongs to all of us and we will not give it up.

f) I agree on one thing with Sánchez: "send an escort to Puigdemont to take him directly to Alcalá-Meco". (Applause)

g) Do not believe the amnesty sold to you by Bolaños or El País. 

h) "It is the hour of the brave. This is the first demonstration. It is our duty to continue fighting against the government".

i) We are not serfs but free and equal citizens. Yes to the Constitution and to undue disobedience.

j) After making it crystal clear that we cannot call tolerance to the intolerable, he won over the audience by shouting loudly and proudly: Long live the Constitution, Long live Spain and Long live the King (more applause).

We listened quietly and respectfully to the national anthem, followed by a rousing chorus of José Manuel Soto's "Soy español" (I am Spanish). The attendees injected patriotism into their veins. A shot of hope. 

The PP and Vox teams, separately, attended this event next to the Cibeles. Núñez Feijóo insisted that the president is on the wrong track, asked him to return to consensus and not to build more walls.

Ayuso likes fruit

Isabel Díaz Ayuso verified that her message "I like fruit" has permeated the sovereign people. This is "a corrupt amnesty" heard this journalist at the demonstration to several taxpayers.

The area was cleared calmly throughout Madrid de los Austrias. Returning by bus along the A-6, half a hundred demonstrators arrived at the Moncloa Palace. More police cars and several milkmaids cut off traffic on the highway in the central direction. In the afternoon, they insisted with the peaceful cuts in both directions and in the evening, the national November demonstrations returned (El Mundo, dixit), to Ferraz, which continues to be the epicenter of the protest.

This Monday, new faces in the Council. We are sure that the Executive of the new social-communist coalition government cannot be worse than the previous ones. May the gods assist us! We will continue in the resistance.

 
Antonio Regalado directs BAHIA de ÍTACA at: 

aregaladorodriguez@yahoo.es